Printer&#39;s tool.



J. J. BRODERIGK. PRINTERS TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.11, 1912. RENEWED JAN. 17, 1914.

1,087,570. Patented Feb- 17, 1914.

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JOHN J. BROIDERICK, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

PRINTERS TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1914:.

Application filed December 11, 1912, Serial No. 736,050. Renewed. January 17, 1914. Serial No. 812,814.

To all "whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. Bnonnnrcx, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manchester, in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Printers Tool, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the subject of printing, and has special reference to tools and appliances that are used by printers to facilitate the art of making up, particularly in newspaper work of this character.

The primary object of the invention is to produce a printers tool that can be quickly and economically manufactured, and which will materially expedite the operations of justifying columns, putting in and taking out leads, shaving whiskers or burs from the ends of linotype slugs, type-high gaging, and stick-holding, the tool being so formed that it is equally adapted for both right and left hand use.

I am aware that separate tools for each of the purposes stated have either been patented or in use for many years, but the multiplicity of tools of this character serves to retard, rather than expedite the work, and in newspaper ofrices, as well as other printing establishments, it is still the practice to use the finger nails in the operations of removing and inserting the leads, and in shaving the whiskers or burs from linotype slug-ends.

In the production of a printers tool possessing the combination and characteristics stated above, it will be understood that the same may be embodied in other forms, my preferred example of which is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein like numerals indicate corresponding parts In all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a detail view in elevation of the improved tool, Fig. 2 represents the manner of using the tool in putting in a lead in justifying a column, Fig. 8 represents the manner of using the tool as a shaver of the ends of linotype slugs, Fig. 4 represents the manner of use of the tool in gaging the height of set type, and Fig. 5 represents the use of the tool as a stickholder.

My improved printers combination tool is preferably formed from a single sheet of material, such as steel, brass or the like, the body 1 being thin and perfectly flat, having an elongated and straight base edge 2, two and one-sixth inches in length, corresponding with the standard width of newspaper columns, or 13 ems pica, which may or may not be graduated. The opposite edge of the body 1 has its corners cut away, as indicated by the numerals 8, 3, to provide oppositely disposed shavers, which are specially adapted for use in removing or shaving whiskers or burs from the end of linotype slugs. In this connection, it will be apparent that by disposing the shavers on the opposite ends of the body 1, the tool need not be reversed for either right or left hand use. The upper edge of the body 1, between the two shavers 3, 3, is provided with the longitudinal recess 4:, intended for use as a type-high gage, being 916/1000 of an inch in length. At one end of the recess l", is a vertical slot, which extends transversely of the body 1, the slot opening into the said recess and serving as a stick-holder, either one of the shavers serving as a base, as illustrated in Fig. 5.

The improved tool being of such form that it can be made from a single sheet of metal or other material, it can be made by a single operation of a stamping or punching machine, which quickly and economically produces the tool.

The vertical, transverse slot in the base of the recess, intended to engage the stick in the stick-holding operation, may be cut of the proper width to serve as a plate gage, and other uses may suggest themselves to printers, or to those skilled in this particular art.

In my illustrated preferred form of this combination tool, the base portion is in the form of a rectangle, and the upper portion in the form of a regular trapezoid, the base line of which is of the same length as the length of the rectangle, and the top portion of which is recessed longitudinally, and vertically slotted at one end of said recess. This particular form lends itself to convenient holding in the palm of the hand in the making-up operation, ready for instant use for either of the purposes named.

'Each of the separate elements composing this combination tool, is more or less dependent upon the other elements in practical operation, the shaver, for instance, forming the base of the stick-holding element.

Having fully described my invention, and its several uses, I claim 1. A printers combination tool, comprising a 'thin, fiat body portion, having a straight base edge, and an upper edgewith its corners cut away, said upper edge being longitudinally recessed between the said corners, and said body portion being provided with a transverse slot opening into said recess.

2. A printers combination tool, comprising body portion having the corners of one longitudinal edge cut away, said longitudinal edge portion between said corners being provided with type-gaging and stickholding means.

3. it printers combination tool, comprising a rectangular body portion, having the corners of one longitudinal edge cut away to form shaving means, and between said corners a longitudinal recess, forming typegaging and sticleholding means.

l. r-r printers tool, comprising a thin, flat, longitudinal body portion, having a straight edge adapted to serve as a makeup rule, the opposite edge of said body portion having longitudinal recess adapted to serve as a type-high gage, a slot in said recess adapted to serve as a stick-holder, and corners cut away to form slug-shavers.

5. it printers tool, comprising a single piece of thin, flat metal, rectangular trapezoidal in shape, having a straight base edge, and a top, oppositely disposed edge having a central longitudinal recess, and a vertical slot in one end of said recess, extending downwardly into the body portion.

A printers tool, consisting of a single piece of sheet metal, rectangular trapezoidal in shape, and comprising in its base portion a make-up rule for justifying newspaper columns, and in its top portion a type-high gage and a stick-holder, and in its top end portions inclined edges adapted to shave the burs from the ends of linotype slugs.

7 A printers tool, adapted to be struck from sheet metal, and comprising in com bination a rectangular make-up rule, and in the top, trapezoidal extension of said rule, a longitudinally disposed recess for gaging the height of type, a transverse slot in said recess, extending downwardly into the body of said tool for holding a stick, and inclined end edges for shaving the ends of linotype slugs.

8. A printers tool, stamped from sheet metal in a form combining a rectangle and a trapezoidal top extension thereof, and comprising in said rectangle a make-up rule, and in said top extension a type-high gage, a stick-holder, and shavers for removing the burs from the ends of linotype slugs.

9. As a new article of manufacture, a printers combination tool, adapted to be stamped from sheet metal, and comprising a rectangular make-up rule, and a sub stantially trapezoidal extension thereof,l1aving means for type-height gaging, stickholding, and shaving the ends of linotype slugs.

J OHN J. BRODERICK.

Signed in the presence of W 13. Srnanns, O. B. Dense.

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